By DARE OJEPE In a country where identity often arrives before ability, it is no small thing when a public policy chooses to listen differently. Nigeria, with its many tongues and temperaments, has long struggled with the burden of translation of names into networks, of accents into access, of origins into opportunity. Too often, the gates of […]

By ADEMOLA OSHODI West Africa’s democratic breakdowns have increasingly followed a predictable sequence. Civic space narrows, dissent is reframed as a security problem, and coercive institutions begin to set the boundaries of permissible speech long before constitutions are suspended. In that context, the decision by the Nigerian National Committee of the International Press Institute to confer […]

By Philip Obazee Every so often, conversations with my old boarding-school classmates veer into sober, and frankly painful, debates about corruption. In one recent exchange, a classmate based in Lagos posed a stark provocation: “Imagine if they executed (names withheld). Do you think any politician would dare steal again?” A classmate calling in from London […]

There is no democratic or constitutional argument against Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s right to seek the office of the President of Nigeria. In a republic governed by law rather than sentiment,…

Small businesses, and increasingly mid-sized businesses, are getting wiped out. Not slowly. Not quietly. Systematically.